| Different Perspectives | ||
| Recipe for marmot: Inkhe | 12 | |
| Street sweeper: Narmanda | 16 | |
| Ambassador: Baljinnyam | 20 | |
| Continuity | ||
| By the Mountains: Manduhai | 26 | |
| By the River: Myagmarsuren | 30 | |
| South of Tuva: Yakherder | 36 | |
| Near Erdenezu: Erdenechimeg | 40 | |
| Country to City | ||
| The great migration: Camel lady | 44 | |
| Milk girls: Oyuntuya and Oyungerel | 48 | |
| On the steppe: Tsenden | 50 | |
| On the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar: Dawajao | 56 | |
| Factory job: Oyuntsetseg | 62 | |
| Politics & Law | ||
| Office of the President: Jama | 66 | |
| Constitutional Court: Sarantuya | 72 | |
| At home: Dash | 78 | |
| Buddhism & Tradition | ||
| Painter of Mongol Zurag: Baatar | 82 | |
| Buddhist: Puntsag Dulam | 90 | |
| Near a coal mine: Oyuna | 94 | |
| Gobi Landscape | ||
| Woman whose father is beating wool for felt | 102 | |
| Woman putting up a ger | 106 | |
| Woman herder near Orok Nur | 110 | |
| Single Woman in the Gobi | 112 | |
| Camelherder: Dariimaa | 116 | |
| Goatherder: Sunjidmaa | 124 | |
| Drawer of water in the Gobi | 130 | |
| Gobi Ovoo | 132 | |
| Professional Women | ||
| Anthropologist: Tumen | 138 | |
| The Bee Lady: Selenge | 144 | |
| Physician: Oyuntsetseg | 150 | |
| Museum curator: Shinebayar | 154 | |
| Getting Started in Business | ||
| Craftswoman in Zunmod: Purevsuren | 162 | |
| Shopowner in Amgalant: Chimge | 166 | |
| Enterprising lady: Har Nuteng | 170 | |
| Resilience | ||
| Half-Russian, half-Mongolian: Inna | 174 | |
| Tractor driver: Mandakh | 176 | |
| Diplomat: Tumen | 180 | |
| Postscript | ||
| Member of Parliament: Narangerel | 184 | |
| Preface | 9 | |
| Map | 188 |
